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wingman   05-19-2009 at 12:26:29 AM

Hello I am new in this forum.
I have a question of a Maxtor PCB swap. The broken disk is totaly dead. I want to test the broken pcb on an same type but working disk. The disk has the same firmware nr only the chipset nrs differ. I have made some pictures could a member check the pictures? and could you measere the pcb power output?
Thanks.

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Message edited by wingman on 05-19-2009 at 01:23:29 AM
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aziraphale   05-19-2009 at 06:57:23 AM
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Power will be the same; but a different chipset ain't gonna work. Even if it's the same chipset you have to be extremely lucky because the motor parameters are stored on the pcb...

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wingman   05-19-2009 at 01:14:12 PM
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aziraphale wrote :

Power will be the same; but a different chipset ain't gonna work. Even if it's the same chipset you have to be extremely lucky because the motor parameters are stored on the pcb...



Thanks for the info.

If you look at the pictures is it dangerous to switch the pcb. The info on the broken disk is very importand for me.

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aziraphale   05-19-2009 at 06:00:29 PM
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If the data is really important let professionals do it; I know quite something about electronics and am quite handy at soldering smd's and stuff; But I wouldn't dare doing it with my valuable stuff (Which is btw backupped a few times). Just think about how much the content of this disk is worth to you; Pro's will get your data back almost certainly. If you switch that PCB yourself you risk losing it alltogether...

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